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Railroad and of the Volcano Stables Company boxes containing 
trees for Arbor Day planting are carried free. The newspapers 
in Hilo have given good publicity to the fact that trees are to be 
had, so that there is no good reason why any one in the Puna or 
Hilo districts who wants to plant trees should go without. 
I cannot pass from this subject without bearing special testi- 
mony to the disinterested and generous manner in which Brother 
IMatthias has given his time, energy and best thought to the inter- 
ests for which this department stands. Both in forestry and 
entomology the Board is able through Brother Matthias to carry 
on work that it could not otherwise do, save at greatly increased 
expense. The people of Hawaii are fortunate in that this Board 
is able to count on the assistance of so able a collaborator as 
Brother Matthias, for the work that he is doing aids as truly as 
do more spectacular achievements to “help Hilo grow.” 
ABROR DAY. 
Preparations for the free distribution of trees on Arbor Day go 
on apace. At the Government Nursery at Honolulu, as has been 
said in earlier reports, something over 40,000 little trees are 
ready to be given out. In the sub-nurseries there are 20,000 at 
Hilo, and as. many more at Homestead, Kauai — where Mr. Walter 
D. McBryde is rivalling Brother Matthias in his interest and 
activity in tree growing. Trees are also being made ready for 
local distribution at temporary sub-stations at Wailuku, Maka- 
wao and Hana, Maui ; at Kohala and Honokaa, Hawaii, and at 
three or four less important points on other islands. General 
notice has been given in newspapers and by posters and hand bills 
in several languages so that no one who really wants trees and 
is willing to meet the Board half way has reason to feel that he 
has not been given an opportunity to get them. 
BOTANICAL EXPLORATIONS. 
IMr. J. F. Rock, the botanist of this Department, is now having 
a very satisfactory collecting trip on the upper slopes and in the 
crater of Flaleakala. He writes that he is getting many inter- 
esting plants that will greatly increase the value of the her- 
barium. Eventually when these plants, with the others that have 
been collected during the past year, come to be worked up, there 
should be a very considerable addition to our knowledge of the 
local flora. 
EXPERIMENTAL TREE PLANTING. 
Additional Grant of Federal Funds. 
I am glad to report that the Forest Service of the United States 
Department of Agriculture has again made an allotment for con- 
tinuing the experimental tree planting work, auspiciously begun 
